The long-time Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad personally and independently decided to resign, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. "Withdrawing from the process of performing the duties of head of state was ...

Asma al-Assad was born in London in 1975 and has spent half her life in the UK, with her parents still living in the west of the capital city. She retains British citizenship, but foreign minister ...

Only weeks ago, Arab nations had been working hard to bring Bashar al-Assad back into the fold, assuming he was there to last. They were badly mistaken. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger writes ...

Ms. Erhaim is a Syrian journalist working as a media and gender consultant in the Middle East and North Africa. What is life without Bashar al-Assad? Michel Kilo, the Syrian intellectual and ...

Deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad went to Russia, a key ally to the fallen regime, after fleeing his country following the collapse of the Assad government to the rebels, according to ...

Over the weekend, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia as opposition forces took over the capital of Damascus, ending an uprising that had begun in 2011 and killed hundreds of thousands ...

President Bashar al-Assad has left Syria behind, fleeing to Russia with his family and leaving his once-impenetrable Damascus mansion to be ransacked by militants and rebels. Members of Jaish al ...

Bashar al-Assad, for all his autocratic power, cultivated a relatively modest public image. He flaunted nothing like the mega-yachts and network of marble baroque and rococo palaces of Iraq’s ...

The rebels now face the task of establishing a government after 14 years of war and dissent, which Assad met with the same brutal and violent tactics his father Hafez al-Assad used to torture the ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was ousted over the weekend by jihadist-led rebels and has fled to Russia, ending his family's five-decade rule of the Middle Eastern country.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, around seven months before his ouster from power by Islamist militant groups, May 2024. Credit: Wikipedia/Khamanei.ir The fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in ...